systematicHR
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Recruiting Dubious Talent
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Here is what the NY Times had to say about AIG executives and bonuses a few weeks ago: Now we can debate why A.I.G. felt it necessary to guarantee seven executives at least $3 million apiece when the economy was…
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Global Data Protection – Model Contracts
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As long as we talked about Safe Harbor in the last entry, we might as well talk about model contracts. Honestly, I don’t like this one as much as it’s really an avenue for data protection that comes out of…
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Global Data Protection
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As I continue to work with global organizations, I’m a bit surprised to see a continued effort around obtaining employee consent for the export of data outside the home country (or EU). While this may have been the traditional method…
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Tri-athletes: Transitions
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Tri-athletes spend a lot of time working on their transitions. How many seconds does it take to get out of the water and into cycling shoes, and then onto the bike. How many seconds does it take to get off…
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Tri-athletes: Skills
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It is not real secret that cyclists the world over hold tri-athletes in general contempt. The general consensus is that when a tri-athlete is on the bike, their bike skills are so poor, they are a general menace to other…
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Changing Governance Based on Complexity
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So I suppose first and foremost, I’ll need to admit that I didn’t even read nearly the entire article I happen to be referring to in this post. I’m really much more of a decision support guy that a decision-making…
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Talentism.com is Back
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This is just a general announcement for those who may have taken talentism.com off their feed readers (like I did). This is one of the smartest and thoughtful blogs in the blogosphere, and I’m so extremely peased he’s back after…
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Engagement Overkill?
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No pun intended. But I’m troubled and I don’t get it. This morning the acting CFO over at Freddie Mac committed suicide. He was brought in after the bailout, so theoretically he should not have a ton of direct responsibility…
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Symphony: Scope of Sight
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From where the conductor stands, she sees and hears everything. This is the perfect place from which to direct and convey small changes in vision. The conductor is perfectly situated so that everyone can see her, and she can alternatively…
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Collaborative Teams
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04-20 I’ll admit that as much as I talk about web 2.0 and collaboration networks, collaboration is simply not a set of tools. Collaboration can be made more efficient with tools and tools can enable certain types of collaboration, but…
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Symphony: Individual Performers
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04-15 In a symphony, there are no individual performers. There can’t be. The whole point of a symphony is individual elements coming together to form a single cohesive vision of piece of music. Violins all coordinate to execute in perfect…
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Internal Succession Plans
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In the recent explosive growth of talent management, performance and recruiting always seemed to be the drivers, but compensation administration and succession planning always seemed close behind. I’ve always thought that recruiting and performance would level off as most organizations…
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Symphony: A Light Touch
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One of the secrets of good conducting is to have a light touch. What actually happens is when a conductor tries to force movements or over-emphasize and overpower the music, the symphony as a whole will generally rebel and do…
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HR Technology Supply and Demand Curves
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I’ve written about it, and so have many others. The economy sucks. Thus, software sales in the HR technology space must also be down. In fact, I’m pretty sure they are – at least in the talent space. Major ERP…
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Symphony: Trust Your Section Leads
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It’s pretty amazing when you watch a symphony or orchestra work. You see the conductor doing her thing front and center. You see violins sitting together in perfect coordination, and all the other instruments doing the same. What is actually…
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systematicHR’s 4th year
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Well, I finally hit 4 years. The deal was to go to 4 years or 1000 posts, whichever came first. Honestly, the last year was a it rough – I wasn’t writing as much, the ideas were not flowing as…
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Changing Governance Based on Complexity
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So I suppose first and foremost, I’ll need to admit that I didn’t even read nearly the entire article I happen to be referring to in this post. I’m really much more of a decision support guy that a decision-making…
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Innovating for Sales
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A while back I observed some talent software from a leading talent management vendor. They were excited to show me their innovations around presenting a “seating chart” that would allow the user to visually see where employees were located within…
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Talent 2.0
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What the heck is Talent 2.0? Well first of all, it’s not here yet. Second of all, it probably makes more sense to define Talent 1.0 before I can theorize on Talent 2.0. Talent Management 1.0 is simply what we…
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Compliance Reporting
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Is there anything worth while about compliance reporting? We do EEO1s, OFCCP, VETS, and do we get anything good out of it? Lets face it, while there might be some slam modicum of insight coming out of these reports that…